Kilb

Kilb is located in the hill country of the Alpine foothills on the Sierning , which rises here, and on the federal road 29 Manker Straße B 29. About 26 percent of the area of the municipality is forested.

Community structure

Cadastral municipalities are:

Hauersdorf
Heinrichsberg
Chain riding
Kilb
Rametzberg
Devil's village
Umbach

Kettenreith is about five kilometers from the center of Kilb and is the second larger settlement in the market town. Kettenreith has its own town center, an inn as well as a kindergarten and its own volunteer fire department .

The municipality includes the following 44 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Braunod (26)
Behren (17)
Dörfl (9)
Dornhof (49) including Dreihöf
Field (9)
Eating Meat (28)
Fohra (11)
Fohrafeld (33)
Freyen (85)
Gartling (30)
Glosbach (27)
Trench (17)
Graben near Hague (13)
Grub at Kilb (20)
Guglberg (18)
Hauersdorf (19)
Haxenöd (10)
Heinrichsberg (26)
Hohenbrand (28)
Hummelbach (3)
Kettenreith (151)
Kilb (1293)
Coal Mountain (21)
Laach (19)
Maierhöfen (31)
Mallau (53)
Niederhofen (58)
Oberneuberg (33)
Panschach (44)
Petersberg (59)
Rametzberg (31)
Ranzenbach (16)
Ruttersdorf (13)
Schlögelsbach (16)
Protect (19)
Taubenwang (5)
Devil's Village (21)
Umbach (47)
Untereuberg (7)
Unterschmidbach (31)
Volkersdorf (19)
Wötzling (24) including Baumgarten
Waasen at Kilb (25)
Wiesenöd (60)

Neighboring communities

Deficiency	Hürm	Bischofstetten
Kirnberg on the Mank		Hofstetten-Grünau ( St. Pölten-Land district )
Texingtal	Kirchberg an der Pielach ( St. Pölten-Land district )	Rabenstein an der Pielach ( St. Pölten-Land district )

history

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province .

coat of arms

Origin and historical background

At the time of Abbot Bartholomäus, the place Khülb received a market coat of arms at its own request from "Richter Rath und Gemaind". This imperial document was issued and made by Vice Chancellor Georg Gienger on May 17, 1541.

The middle and main part of the document issued at the time of Emperor Ferdinand I reads in the original text:

"That we have looked at it, thoughtlessly and looked at it, I should humbly and categorically ask the intended judge Rath and Gemaind, and therefore with careful thought, good advice and right-wing knowledgeable Markht Külb with the coat of arms written afterwards with his name on the Rotter or Ruby-colored Schilt has in the middle over two white or silver-colored streets, in the Schiltsgrund above three green Pucht, from the earth appearing three Paum with their green foliage and Estonians pulled up above them, twisted and whitewashed, we should then coat of arms and Clainatt in the midst of this our royal letter, and actually painted out with colors, Granted and given again, graciously. "

- according to teacher Josef Auster

Community partnerships

Since 1983 Kirtorf ( Hessen , Germany ), since 1983

politics

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The municipal council has 21 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 1 FPÖ and 1 Kilb 2000 citizens' list.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and 6 SPÖ.

mayor

1995–2010 Ernst Gansch (ÖVP)
since 2010 Manfred Roitner (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

See also: List of listed objects in Kilb

Grünbühel Castle , (also Grünbichl), renaissance castle built by Nikolaus Gienger von Grienpichel on the site of a castle , redesigned in a classical style in 1830.
Catholic parish church Kilb hll. Simon and Judas: Founded by Bishop Altmann von Passau around 1080, was expanded in the 15th century to a three-aisled late Gothic staggered church and is also called the “Queen of the Country Parish Churches” because of its size.
The culture and event center "K4 - Art, Culture, Culinary Kilb" with a maximum of 400 seats has existed since 2004.
In 1988 a mighty guild tree was erected in the center of the village from a 130 year old and 22 m high larch.
Since 1986 the parish church has been the backdrop for the Kilber Passion Play , in which amateur actors from the community portray the “suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord”. In addition, there were demonstrations in 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014.

Grünbühel Castle
Parish Church Kilb
Melk Abbey tavern in Kettenreith
Guild tree

economy

In 2001 there were 78 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry holdings 184 according to the 1999 survey. The number of people in work at the place of residence was 1,134 according to the 2001 census. In 2001 the activity rate was 46 percent.

traffic

Kilb was a station on the narrow-gauge local railway Ober-Grafendorf-Gresten , which was discontinued in 2010.

Personalities

Edith Specht (* 1943), ancient historian

Others

The market town of Kilb is a setting in the novel Holzfalls by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard . The opening scenes in Xaver Schwarzenberger's Happy Hour film were also shot in Kilb.

Web links

Commons : Kilb - collection of images, videos and audio files

31514 - Kilb. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Side of the market town of Kilb

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

↑ The municipal coat of arms ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.kilb.at, accessed on November 20, 2016

^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Kilb. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed October 17, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Kilb. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 17, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Kilb. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 17, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Kilb. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 17, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2015 in Kilb. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 17, 2019 .

↑ Website of the Passion Play ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] The municipal coat of arms ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.kilb.at, accessed on November 20, 2016 @1@ 2

[NÖGrw1995_31514-3] Result of the local council election 1995 in Kilb. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed October 17, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2000_31514-4] Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Kilb. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 17, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2005_31514-5] Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Kilb. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 17, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2010_31514-6] Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Kilb. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 17, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2015_31514-7] Election result of the municipal council election 2015 in Kilb. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 17, 2019 .